I'm interested to see how he does without Dan, Hank, or Kes. My gut tells me he'll be one of the better PK guys and a depth player. Can't see his offense being what it is in the NHL. Regardless, nice that he's getting recognized.

Yup! This is shaping up to become a really good tournament. With all the first round upsets there's a whole bunch of players that feel robbed and frustrated and have something to prove. This coupled with the world championships starting a tad later this year than ususal means a whole lot of big names have decided to come. Heck, even the Danes have three NHL players!

Alfredsson just announced that he'll come too.

He hasn't decided yet whether he'll play next season or call it quits and retire, so this could be the last we see of him on a hockey rink...!

Blue line looks pretty impressive, even though I wouldn't have objected to having Edler or Murray on there as well. Possible non-NHL d-men that may make the cut are Staffan Kronwall (Niklas's brother), and Mattias Ekholm.

Some good forwards too, but just eight names make it too early to evaluate. Calle Järnkrook and Johan Larsson, who played on Silfverberg's line as Brynäs won the Swedish championship may make the cut. Other possible players are Niklas Persson (CSKA Moscow) and Joel Lundqvist (Frölunda), Henrik's twin brother.

Goaltending - a question mark at the moment. Enroth's career NHL stats are 17-14-6 with a .913 save% and 2.75 GAA.Not bad, but not that impressive either. I'd rate him a reliable backup, but I'd like to see another starter. Guess team management is still holding out for Henrik Lundqvist... In their last pre-tournament game (against the US here in Gävle on May 1st) they have Enroth and Viktor Fasth listed as goalies. Fasth was one of the better goalies in the SEL this season, and I guess he'll probably get the second goalie slot when they report the skeleton roster ahead of the tournament. Leaving the third slot open means they can bring Lundqvist over if the Capitals beat the Rangers. Fasth and Enroth are good enough goalies, I guess, but are they championship winning goalies? That remains to be seen.

Sweden has stunk it up really bad in the pre-tournament games. Six straight losses. Sure, that's without most of the NHL players, but still. Hopefully the infusion of NHLers will turn things around.

Adding Alfredsson and Karlsson from Ottawa and Zetterberg, Franzén, Kronwall and Ericsson from Detroit should help both the offense and the defense get better. And Landeskog has been resting after hurting his knee. No injury though, it's just sore, so he should be good to go once the tournament starts.

This means they have registered 18 skaters and 2 goalies (instead of the 22 skaters and 3 goalies allowed) and still have room to add a few more players from the Stanley Cup quarter final eliminations (eg Lundqvist, Bäckström, Steen... )

This should be a great tournament. Malkin is here, Perry, Datsyuk, Chara, Getzlaf, Zetterberg, Mikko Koivu, Alfredsson, Keith... and the up and coming like Nugent-Hopkins, Erik Karlsson, Landeskog, Kuznetsov.

Splitting the tournament between Sweden and Finland also means that there are twice as many games that draw a home crowd, and that the number of games in each country is reduced, which leads to more pressure on tickets.

Time to sit back and enjoy and forget about what happened in the Stanley Cup playoffs.